Audience response system technology improves accuracy and reliability of trauma outcome judgments

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 135-141

  Jacobs, David G ^a   Sarafin, Jennifer L ^a   Huynh, Toan ^a   Miles, William S ^a   Sing, Ronald F ^a   Thomason, Michael H ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymous voting; Outcome assessments; Performance improvement; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMATOLOGY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEATH; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE COST; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; NOTE; PEER REVIEW; PROBABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; TECHNOLOGY;

DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; NORTH CAROLINA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PEER REVIEW, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33746266835     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000222384.18838.02     Document Type: Article

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